APA-Nairobi (Kenya) — The East African Community under the Mobile Laboratory Project on Wednesday deployed nine mobile laboratories and Coronavirus test kits to all EAC Partner States in a bid to detect and respond to highly infectious diseases such as COVID-19 and Ebola.

APA - Dakar (Senegal) — Africa is striking a new kind of fear in the heart of the international community about its ability to cope with the coronavirus crisis, given that along with Oceania, it is one of the few continents least affected by the pandemic.

APA - Kigali (Rwanda) — A total 342 Rwandan nationals have returned back home from Uganda after being told by authorities in Kampala to pack up and leave their territory this week over alleged Covid-19 fears, a senior local administrative official in Rwanda's Northern Province confirmed to APA Friday in Kigali.

APA-Kampala (Uganda) — Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has said starting 12:00 pm today Sunday 22nd March 2020, no passenger planes or human movement shall be allowed to enter or leave the country as measure to control the spread of the Corona virus disease COVID-19.